Australian power stations among world's worst for toxic air pollution

Coal-fired stations in Victoria's Latrobe Valley and NSW's Lake Macquarie region among biggest hotspots for deadly sulphur dioxide, report finds

Power stations in Victoria's Latrobe Valley and New South Wales's Lake Macquarie region have been named on a list of the world's biggest hotspots for toxic air pollution.

A new report by Greenpeace, published on Monday, used satellite data published by Nasa to analyse the world's worst sources of sulphur dioxide (SO2) pollution, an irritant gas known to affect human health and one of the main pollutants contributing to deaths from air pollution worldwide.